Robert Downey Jr. says it's "absolute horsesh*t" to declare that social media influencers are "the stars of the future."
“Nowadays people can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves. I don’t look at that as a negative thing. I just look at it as more like the challenge for individuation is being upped. Hopefully the [larger] part of the youth is gonna say, ‘Yeah, but that’s not my thing. I want to go do something, I’m going to make something, I want to build something... so whatever my output is, it isn’t just a self-aggrandizing kind of influencer-type thing'... When I hear people talk about, ‘Oh, the stars of the future are going to be influencers,’ I go, ‘I don’t know what world you’re living in, but I think that that is absolute horsesh*t.'”
“[My 14-year-old son] kinda got caught up in this whole influencer thing and next thing you know it’s like, ‘If you like the way I’m playing this video game, do you wanna send me a donation?’ There’s something about the influencers today that are almost like the Evangelical hucksters of the information age." (via “Conversations for our Daughters”)
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I’m generally opposed to milking these franchises dry until they’re nothing but a shriveled husk, but if this movie is going to villainize iPads and scold parents who use screens to babysit their kids then I wholly support it. This may be the only “part 5” movie that has ever had a valid reason to exist.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt came to Utah's Capitol today to urge lawmakers to support HB286, which would require AI companies to do more to keep children and others safe. A House committee unanimously approved the bill, sending it on for further consideration #utpol@hitRECordJoe
Top 10 scariest movies of all time, according to an experiment from the Science of Scare Project:
🔟 - Talk to Me
9️⃣ - The Exorcism of Emily Rose
8️⃣ - Smile
7️⃣ - Smile 2
6️⃣ - Hereditary
5️⃣ - The Conjuring
4️⃣ - Insidious
3️⃣ - Skinamirink
2️⃣ - Host
1️⃣ - Sinister
(Source: https://t.co/OtnNv4Cunu)